Peace Action West News

Join Peace Action West, Amnesty International, and thousands of your peers on July 25 in a global day of action calling for basic human rights in Iran. Come and join Peace Action West in standing [...]

The Senate voted this week to accept the Levin-McCain amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act.  The Amendment (passed 58-40) will eliminate the $1.75B slated for the development of [...]

As you’ve read here before, we’ve been mobilizing our members to help gain cosponsors for Rep. McGovern’s bill calling for an exit strategy from Afghanistan. This is one of the first legislative [...]

Since I returned from Iran, I have done a number of media appearances talking about my trip, the Iranian election, and the need for diplomacy with Iran as opposed to sanctions and other harsh [...]

On May 25, the North Korean government announced it had conducted its second nuclear test. On May 26, it test fired two short range missiles, and on Friday, it launched a third.  A host of [...]

On Monday, KGO-TV, San Francisco’s ABC affiliate, interviewed Becca about her experiences in Iran. Click here to see what she had to say.

On our last day in Tehran, we had a meeting with Dr. Hosseini, professor of American Studies at Tehran University, and some of his M.A. students. The American Studies program has only existed for [...]

As our group was walking from our visit to the nearby Armenian Christian Church to catch a cab to Imam Khomeini’s house, I finally saw the infamous building with a mural showing the American flag [...]

This is another piece that Iranian writer/filmmaker Habib Ahmadzadeh asked me to share with you. Please share your thoughts in the comments section and I will make sure he sees them. Letter from [...]

President Obama continues to state that the military alone will not solve the problems in Afghanistan. In a May 16 interview with Newsweek, he admits that “we aren’t  going to succeed [...]